Turkana’s Star Navigation Running Guides National U-18 Team in Doha Heat

by KenyaPolls

Kenya’s U-18 athletics team used Star Navigation Running principles (News #312) to dominate the 2025 World U18 Championships in Doha—winning 7 golds in endurance events despite 42°C heat. Athletes paced by pulse, used traditional cooling (clay, shade rhythms), and visualized routes by star patterns during night sessions. We didn’t fight the heat—we danced with it, said 1,500m champion Lemaron Lengurisi Jr. World Athletics invited Turkana elders to train its Heat Resilience Task Force in 2026. A documentary, *Dancing with the Sun*, releases in January.

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